Dear SrI Narayanan: At 05:51 AM 5/22/03 -0000, you wrote: >Can someone enlighten me on the difference between shloka and >strotra? >adiyen, >Narayanan ShlOkam is an individual verse in Sanskrit set to particular metre. SthOthram is a group of verses in praise usually of a God or Goddess or an AchAryan. Many of them are composed by AchAryAs or great poets. If this sthOthram has 8 verses , it is an octet with the Sanskrit name of Ashtakam. The twenty verse containing sthOthram is called Vimsathi. The one with fifty verses is known as PanchAsath. The one with 100 sthuthi slOkams ( eulogies) is known as Sathakam . The longest SthOthram has 1000 SlOkams and is known as Sahasram. Some examples of these sthOthrams are: 1.SrI Sudarsana Ashtakam about Lord Sudarsanar 2.YathirAja Vimsathy about AchArya RaamAnujA ; Gopala Vimsathy is about SrI Raaja veNu GopAlan. 3.VaradarAja PanchAsath about Lord VaradarAja of Kaanchipuram 4.Achyutha sathakam about Lord DevanAthan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram , a dhivya dEsam near Cuddalore. 5. Lakshmi Sahsaram about Goddess SrI Devi. V.Sadagopan
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